Inconsolata VS victor-mono

If you haven't heard of him, the joke's on you. Maybe. In any case, his work is worth looking into.

He has done interesting work in font creation, font building primitives, rasterization, 2D drawing, and resistant social network graphs (which turns out to be more or less equivalent to the Old Sk00l Google Juice system).

He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. It was something that one would think would work, but somehow it didn't. It's always interesting when intelligent and well-informed people are wrong about something. Perhaps there was too much Design and too little boring boiler plate.

https://levien.com/

https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

https://levien.com/phd/phd.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

I ran into something really similar with the "Inconsolata" font on Ubuntu recently (same issue as here, in case you'd like to read about it). What worked for me was recompiling emacs from source, and including the --with-cairo flag for the configure script:

I like Fantasque Sans Mono, and Inconsolata, and Input (not open source).

I change the mono font to Ligconsolata (Inconsolata with ligatures), and for the colors I use Tomorrow Night Eighties.

For example, installing Inconsolata-VF creates one "Inconsolata Regular (TrueType)" entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts. Then I can only do @font-face { font-family: "Courier New"; src: local("Inconsolata Regular"); } Anything else like "Inconsolata Medium" won't work.

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That's not a trick question. Victor Mono does support ligatures.

Used FiraCode for a while, then switched to Victor Mono [0], but found myself going back to Cascadia Code [1]. I can't seem to be able to get along with fonts that are too thin it seems.

[0]: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

The font is called VictorMono!

I don’t know about the one from your screenshot, but I use Victor Mono https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

I don't use ligatures at all, but I have seen it on websites. So perhaps it's the CSS of the website that has decided to do this. I don't have any specific examples off hand, but my mental picture puts it on sites that also use this style of font: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/ (although typing fi into the sandbox on the site doesn't exhibit the behavior).

like here: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

Previously, [VictorMono](https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/), but now I am rocking: [JetBrainsMono](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/) and [Cascadia Code](https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code)